Danger as wave of crypto influencers and celeb X accounts are hacked

Walmart plans to eventually install 8,000 Bitcoin ATMs in the U.S. and has installed 200 in a pilot program. 1794 Total views 44 Total shares Walmart has partnered with coin-cashing machine company Coinstar and crypto-cash exchange CoinMe to install 200 Bitcoin ATMs in its stores across the U.S. Although the pilot includes only 200 kiosks, the…

Canadian bitcoin (BTC) mining company Hut 8 made almost $50 million in revenue last year but triggered total losses of almost $140 million, according to an annual earnings report released on May 6.Hut 8, which counts itself as one of the world’s largest publicly-traded cryptocurrency mining companies, saw 2018 revenue hit $49.4 million.The company’s EBITDA…

Over 41% of those transactions took place on Xai, a new Ethereum layer-3 scaling solution focused on gaming applications.

In an interview with Cointelegraph at the Stanford Blockchain Conference on Feb. 19, Stanford University cryptography Ph.D. student Ben Fisch described Supersonic as a trustless zero-knowledge proof system, also referred to as a zk-SNARK. Fisch helped create a trustless zero-knowledge proof system designed specifically for decentralized finance. Trustless versus trusted zk-SNARKsWhile zero-knowledge proof systems are needed for…

Notable entrepreneurs are backing the seed funding round led by Pathfinder that aims to strengthen Lolli’s app. Bitcoin (BTC) rewards company Lolli announced on Monday the close of an oversubscribed $3 million seed-II funding round led by Pathfinder and investors such as Michelle Phan, Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary.According to the announcement, the funding will…

British researchers are trialing a new blockchain-based certificate designed to manage COVID-19 risks across supply chains. British researchers are trialing a new blockchain-based certificate designed to manage COVID-19 risks across supply chains.In a statement on April 21, Professor Nassim Belbaly, director of Birmingham City Business School, noted that “coronavirus represents a crisis of trust because…

This project is focusing on cross-chain interoperability and on-chain credit scoring to advance the DeFi lending ecosystem. Wing, a lending protocol built on the Ontology blockchain, currently has $180 million in crypto assets staked on its platform — not a meager amount, even by Ethereum (ETH) standards. Eric Pinos, Ontology’s ecosystem lead for the Americas and…

In addition to air and water pollution as a result of energy production, the lawmakers pointed to electronic waste from mining rigs, and noise pollution in surrounding communities. 274 Total views 2 Total shares United States House of Representatives member Jared Huffman and 12 other lawmakers have requested the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, assess…

Roscosmos is the first organization to test Waves Enterprise’s IP Guard solution. 3036 Total views 24 Total shares Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, aims to fight intellectual property infringement in the space industry wit blockchain technology.Roscosmos started testing an IP protection solution based on the Waves Enterprise blockchain platform, a hybrid blockchain platform developed by the…